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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities.
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Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical ranch must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
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The Paris Novel
by Ruth Reichl
Resigning herself to honor her mother's last wishes, Stella travels to Paris where she meets an octogenarian art collector who introduces her to the who's who of the 1980's Paris literary, art and culinary worlds, helping her understand what it might mean to live a larger life.
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Kitchens of the Great Midwest
by J. Ryan Stradal
Raised with a sophisticated palate by her single father, Eva learns the culturally rich stories behind a series of Midwestern dishes while becoming the star chef at a legendary restaurant.
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The Blue Bistro
by Elin Hilderbrand
Adrienne moves to Nantucket in the hopes of starting over and gets a crash course in restaurant management at a popular locale that is preparing to close, an endeavor that is compromised by her budding relationship with her boss
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The Little French Bistro
by Nina George
Overcome by regrets after decades in a loveless and unhappy marriage, Marianne attempts suicide and is abandoned by her husband before finding herself in picturesque Brittany, where she finds loving new friends who encourage her to develop her talents for her own pleasure.
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The Sugar Queen
by Sarah Addison Allen
Quiet, awkward Josey Cirrini's peaceful life--caring for her elderly mother, enjoying romance novels, and indulging in her secret passion for sweets--is turned upside down when Della Lee Baker, a sassy, confident, and bold waitress fleeing an abusive boyfriend, decides to hide out in Josey's home.
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Bread Alone
by Judith Ryan Hendricks
When her husband leaves her for another woman, Wynter Morrison moves to Seattle to start a new life and decides to pursue her passion with breadmaking by accepting a position in a local bake shop, and soon Wynter discovers the extraordinary healing power of making bread--a power that strengthens both her body and spirit.
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Crescent
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor who not awakens unexpected feelings but also stirs up memories of her parents and questions about her Arab-American identity.
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Sourdough
by Robin Sloan
Enduring a virtually solitary existence working for an ambitious software company, an exhausted coder is bequeathed a sourdough recipe from sibling bakers who are forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology.
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The Golden Spoon
by Jessa Maxwell
During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as“America's Grandmother,” finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.
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Land of Milk and Honey
by C Pam Zhang
Accepting a job at a decadent, mountaintop colony, a young chef, with the help of her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter, is awakened to the pleasures of taste, touch and her own body until she is pushed beyond her boundaries in a plot to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
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Family Meal
by Bryan Washington
Haunted by the ghost of Kai, the love of his life, Cam returns to his hometown of Houston where he reconnects with his former best friend, TJ, and his family's bakery and wonders if they can find a way back to being okay again.
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Aftertaste
by Daria Lavelle
Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing, this novel is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger—and how far we'd go to find satisfaction.
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